Famous Deaths on September 8

• 394 Arbogast, French general, commits suicide
• 701 Sergius I, Syrian born Pope (687-701), dies (b. c. 650)
• 780 Leo IV de Khazar, Byzantine Emperor (775-80), dies of tuberculosis at 30

• 1100 Antipope Clement III [Guibert of Ravenna], Italian archbishop, and1st anti-pope (1084-1100), dies at about 75 [birthdate uncertain]
• 1397 Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England, dies at 42
• 1425 King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
• 1476 John II, French duke of Alencon (fought alongside Jeanne d'arc), dies in prison at 67
• 1539 John Stokesley, English churchman, chaplain to Henry VIII and Bishop of London, dies at 74
• 1550 Hans [Johann] Vischer, German count of Johann Cicero, dies
• 1555 Thomas of Villanova [Tomás García], Spanish saint, Archbishop of Valencia, Spain, and writer, dies at 67
• 1560 Amy Robsart, wife of English premier Robert Dudley, dies falling down a flight of stairs in suspicious circumstances at 28
• 1603 George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician, Lord Chamberlain to Elizabeth I (b. 1547)
• 1613 Don Carlo Gesauldo, Italian composer, dies at 47
• 1633 Carlo Caraffa, Italian founder of the Jesuit religious order founder, dies at about 72
• 1637 Robert Fludd, English physician, mystical philosopher and composer, dies at 63
• 1644 Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion), dies at 52

• 1644 John Coke, English politician (Secretary of State for Charles I, 1626-40), dies at 81
• 1645 Francisco Gómez de Quevedo, Spanish author and poet, dies at 64
• 1654 Peter Claver, Spanish saint and Jesuit missionary in Cartagena, South America (baptized 300,000 slaves), dies (b. 1581)
• 1656 Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (Virgidemiarum: Six Books), dies at 82
• 1660 Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54
• 1675 Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels and wife of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, dies at 73
• 1682 Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer, dies at 76
• 1706 Romanus Weichlein, Austrian composer, dies at 53
• 1721 Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor, dies at 35
• 1734 Michel Sarrazin, French surgeon and naturalist (kings doctor in New France, discovered sarsaparilla), dies at 75 [1]
• 1739 Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668)
• 1755 Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (Williams College), dies at 40
• 1761 Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer who pioneered hydraulics (b. 1698)
• 1780 Enoch Poor, American Revolutionary War general, dies at 44

French writer (Beauty and the Beast), dies at 69

• 1806 Patrick Cotter O'Brien, Irish showman, first known eight-foot-tall person (stood 8-feet, 1-inch (246cm), dies from strain of gigantism at 46 [1]
• 1811 Peter Simon Pallas, Prussian geologist and zoologist working in Russia, dies at 69
• 1814 Maria Carolina of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies, dies at 62
• 1819 Franz Stanislaus Spindler, German composer, dies at 56
• 1831 John Aitken, Scottish-born American music publisher, dies at 85 or 86
• 1838 Pietro Rovelli, Italian composer, dies at 45
• 1840 John Hendricus van de Palm, Dutch linguist and theologist, dies at 77
• 1853 Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar and founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, dies at 40
• 1858 Jacopo Foroni, Italian opera composer (I gladiatori; Advokathen Panthelin), and conductor, dies during cholera epidemic at 34
• 1869 William Pitt Fessenden, American politician, Secretary of the Treasury during Civil War (Union), dies at 62
• 1871 Etienne-Joseph Soubre, Belgian composer, dies at 57
• 1879 Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, Russian musical teacher to Tchaikovsky and composer, dies at 58
• 1881 Frederick, Prince of the Netherlands and general and large landowner (created Muskau Park), dies at 84
• 1882 Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (surface of Liouville), dies at 73
• 1888 Annie Chapman, English victim of the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper, murdered at about 48
• 1893 Luke Short, American Old West gunslinger and saloon owner, dies of dropsy at 39
• 1893 Wilhelm Kalliwoda, Bohemian-German pianist, composer, kapellmeister, and music teacher, dies at 66
• 1894 Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist, dies at 73

German automobile manufacturer (Adam Opel AG), dies at 58

• 1899 Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, Bohemian clarinetist, bandleader, and composer, dies at 78
• 1901 Johannes von Miquel, German politician (Vice President Kingdom of Prussia 1897-1901), dies at 73
• 1909 Frank Crawford Armstrong, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 73
• 1914 William Erasmus Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, subject of his father's psychological studies, dies at 74
• 1917 Charles-Édouard Lefebvre, French composer, dies at 74
• 1922 Léon Bonnat, French painter (Job), dies at 89
• 1933 Faysal I, Arab statesman, King of Iraq (1921-33) and Syria (1920), dies of a heart attack at 48
• 1935 Carl Weiss, American physician who murdered US Senator Huey Long, shot and killed by the senator's bodyguards at 28

American oil tycoon who drilled the 1st successful oil well in Los Angeles and set off the California oil boom, dies of natural causes at 79

American politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (1928-32) and Senator (1932-35), assassinated at 42 by Carl Weiss at the Baton Rouge Capitol building

• 1944 Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer (Frau Helga von Staveren; Thijl), conductor, and anti-Nazi resistance fighter, dies of pneumonia at 63
• 1947 Victor Horta, Belgium architect, founder of Art Nouveau movement (Hôtel Tassel), dies at 86
• 1948 Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)

German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote), dies at 85

• 1951 Jürgen Stroop, SS General during World War II and commander of Nazi forces during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, executed by hanging for crimes against humanity at 56
• 1953 Fred M. Vinson, American Democratic politician, US Treasury Secretary (1945-46) and the 13th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1946-53), dies of a heart attack at 63
• 1955 Johannes de Young, Dutch cardinal and archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69
• 1956 Fred Rich, Polish-American jazz pianist and dance band bandleader ("I'm Tickled Pink with a Blue-Eyed Baby"; The Abbott and Costello Show), dies at 58
• 1956 Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-45), dies at 84
• 1956 Vital Celen, Flemish writer ('t Pastoorke van Vossendonck), dies at 69
• 1962 Hermann Staudinger, German chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1953 for polymers), dies at 84
• 1962 Solomon Linda, South African singer and composer ("Mbube" / "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"), dies of kidney failure at 52 or 53 [birth date uncertain]
• 1965 Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (Island in the Sun), dies of accidental overdose at 42
• 1969 Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and writer, dies at 100
• 1969 Bud Collyer, American TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), dies at 61
• 1970 Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor of the microwave oven, dies at 76 [1]
• 1974 Robert Cox, American comic actor, last surviving member of Keystone Kops, dies at 79
• 1975 John Mylong, Austrian actor (Robot Monsters), dies at 82
• 1976 Asen Karastoyanov, Bulgarian composer, dies at 83
• 1976 Joaquin Zamacois Soler, Chilean-Spanish composer, dies at 81
• 1977 Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel, American comedian and actor (Fiddler on the Roof, The Producers), dies of an aortic aneurysm at 62
• 1978 Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argentine film director (Monday's Child), dies at 54
• 1978 Pancho Vladigerov, Bulgarian pianist, composer (Vardar Rhapsody; Song to Peace), and pedagogue, dies at 79
• 1980 Bruce Dooland, Australian cricket all-rounder (3 Tests; Nottinghamshire; Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1955), dies at 56
• 1980 Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram), dies at 101
• 1980 Jean Piaget, Swiss pioneer developmental psychologist and zoologist, dies at 84

American chemist who developed radiocarbon dating (Nobel 1960), dies of pneumonia at 71

• 1981 Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist (Nobel 1949), dies at 74
• 1981 Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist and longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80
• 1983 Antonin Magne, French cyclist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies at 79
• 1983 Ibrahim Abboud, 1st President and 4th Prime Minister of Sudan (1958-64), dies at 82
• 1983 Willem "Wim" Kan, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 72
• 1984 Frank Lowson, England cricket batsman (7 Tests, 2 x 50s; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 59
• 1984 Johnnie Parsons, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1950; AAA/USAC Championship 1949), dies at 66
• 1984 Rene Bernier, Belgian composer, dies at 79
• 1985 John Franklin Enders, American microbiologist (1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for culturing poliovirus, developed measles vaccine), dies at 88
• 1985 Manuel Ivo Cruz, Portuguese composer and founder of Philharmonic Orchestra of Lisbon, dies at 84
• 1990 Denys Watkins-Pitchford, British writer and illustrator (The Little Grey Men), dies at 85
• 1991 Alex North [Isadore Soifer], American composer (Spartacus, Viva Zapata), dies of cancer at 80 [1]
• 1991 Brad Davis, American actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire), dies at 41
• 1991 Jan Józef Lipski, Polish historian and anti-communist dissident (Polish Socialist Party), dies at 65
• 1992 Quentin Burdick, American politician (Senator-D-North Dakota 1960-91), dies at 84
• 1993 Hall Bartlett, American director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70
• 1993 Lorrin "Whitey" Harrison, American surfer, dies of a heart attack at 80
• 1993 Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher, author and diplomat, dies at 88
• 1994 Deborah Beer, British still photographer (Pasolini, Fellini), dies at 44
• 1994 Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies of lung cancer at 70
• 1994 Rex Alston, English sports broadcaster and author (BBC radio), dies at 93
• 1995 Eileen Chang, Chinese-American writer and feminist, dies at 73
• 1995 Halldis Moren Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (Harp and Dagger), dies at 87
• 1995 Olga Ivinskaya, mistress of Boris Pasternak, dies of cancer at 83
• 1995 Safa Khulusi, Iraqi writer and historian, dies at 78
• 1996 Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, American Art Deco designer, artist and writer, dies at 102
• 1999 Moondog [Louis Thomas Hardin], American composer, musician and poet ("Cofee Beans"), dies at 83
• 2002 Laurie Williams, West Indian cricket all-rounder (15 ODIs, 18 wickets; Jamaica), dies in a car accident at 33
• 2002 Leo Derksen, Dutch journalist (De Telegraaf), dies at 75
• 2003 Gulabrai Ramchand, Indian cricket all-rounder (33 Tests, 2 x 100, 41 wickets, BB 6/49; Sind, Bombay, Rajasthan), dies at 76
• 2003 Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (Caillou; 15/Love), dies in a car crash at 17

German film director (Triumph of the Will) and actress (Tiefland), dies in her sleep at 101

• 2004 Frank Thomas, American animator, dies at 92
• 2005 Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932)
• 2006 Erk Russell, American football, basketball, baseball and track coach, dies at 80
• 2006 Frank Middlemass, British actor (Heart Beat, As Time Goes By, Oliver Twist), dies at 87
• 2006 Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
• 2006 Jean Villain, Swiss writer, dies at 78
• 2006 Peter Brock, Australian auto racer (3 x Australian Touring Car C'ship; 9 x Bathurst 500/1000; 9 x Sandown Endurance), dies in a rally crash at 61
• 2007 Nicholas Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell, British historian, dies at 69
• 2007 Ramón Cardemil, Chilean rodeo horse rider, dies at 90
• 2008 Evan Tanner, American mixed martial arts fighter and UFC Champion, dies of heat exposure in the California desert at 37
• 2009 Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1922)
• 2009 Army Archerd, American Hollywood columnist (Variety) and TV host (Movie Game), dies at 87
• 2009 Mike Bongiorno, Italian television host (b. 1924)
• 2009 Raymond "Ray" Barrett, Australian actor (The Troubleshooters, Gillette Summer Sports Reel), dies at 82
• 2010 Rich Cronin, American singer-songwriter (Lyte Funkie Ones), dies of cancer aged 36
• 2012 Bill Moggridge [William], British designer (IDEO), dies from cancer at 69
• 2014 Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter, arranger (Jimmie Lunceford; Duke Ellington), orchestra leader, and teacher dies at 96
• 2014 Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (Adriana Lecouvreur; La Voix Humaine), dies at 104
• 2014 S. Truett Cathy, American businessman (founder of Chick-fil-A), dies at 93
• 2015 Joaquín Andújar, Dominican baseball pitcher (4 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1982; Gold Glove Award 1984; Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 62
• 2016 Johan Botha, South African operatic tenor, dies of liver cancer at 51
• 2016 Prince Buster [Cecil Bustamente Campbell], Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer ("Al Capone"; "Madness", "Whine and Grine"), dies at 78 [1]
• 2016 The Lady Chablis [Benjamin Knox], American transgender entertainer (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil), dies at 59
• 2017 Catherine Hardy Lavender, American 4x100m runner (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 87
• 2017 Donald "Don" Williams, American country singer ("I Believe in You"), dies from emphysema at 78
• 2017 Isabelle Daniels, American sprinter (Olympic bronze 56), dies at 80
• 2017 Pierre Bergé, French industrialist and co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent Couture House, dies at 86
• 2018 Richard Vincent, Baron Vincent of Coleshill, British army officer. 1951-96 (Chief of Defence Staff, 1991-92), dies at 87
• 2018 Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario, dies at 87
• 2019 Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer (Perdóname, El Amor De Mi Vida), dies of kidney failure at 72
• 2019 Joseph P. Kolter, American politician (US Representatives from Pennsylvania, 1983-93), dies at 93
• 2020 Alfred Riedl, Austrian soccer striker (4 caps; Austria Wien, Standard Liège) and manager (Austria,Liechtenstein, Vietnam, Palestine, Laos, Indonesia), dies at 70
• 2020 Gene A. Budig, American baseball executive (last American League [AL] president 1994-99), dies from liver disease at 81
• 2020 Ronald Harwood, South African playwright and screenwriter (The Dresser), dies at 85
• 2020 Simeon Coxe, American songwriter, singer and psychedelic synthesizer player (Silver Apples), dies of pulmonary fibrosis at 82 [1]
• 2021 Antony Acland, British diplomat (Ambassador to US, 1986-91; Undersecretary of State, 1982-86; Ambassador to Spain 1977-80; Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1975-77), and administrator (Provost of Eton College, 1991-2000), dies at 91
• 2021 Art Metrano, American comedian (Amy Prentiss, Joanie Loves Chachi), dies at 84
• 2021 Big Daddy Graham [Edward Gudonis], American comedian, writer, actor, recording artist, and radio personality, dies of heart failure at 68
• 2022 Dave Smith, Scottish soccer manager (Mansfield Town, Southend United, Plymouth Argyle, Dundee, Torquay United), dies at 88

Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (country's longest reigning monarch 1952-2022), dies at 96

• 2022 Gwyneth Powell, British actress (Grange Hill - "Mrs. McClusky", dies of surgical complications at 76

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